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Minnesota Twins Daily Clips Sunday, April 3, 2016 Bremer Minnesota Twins Daily Clips Sunday, April 3, 2016 Bremer sees Twins taking another step forward in 2016. MLB.com (Bollinger) p. 1 Twins' bats look ready for the regular season. MLB.com (Ladson) p. 2 Twins youth is promising, but winning doesn't always come right away. Star Tribune (Miller) p. 3 Twins finish exhibition schedule with no lingering issues. Star Tribune (Miller) p. 6 Twins notes: Home run indicates Mauer's health, readiness. Star Tribune (Miller) p. 7 No. 5 starter Nolasco gives up four HRs in exhibition finale. Star Tribune (Miller) p. 8 Reusse: Not many young players master baseball. Star Tribune (Reusse) p. 9 Souhan: Numbers game catches up quickly to Nolasco. Star Tribune (Souhan) p. 10 Joe Mauer finishes spring with 3-run blast; 'He’s healthy and he feels good. Pioneer Press (Berardino) p. 11 Twins pitcher Ricky Nolasco trying to make the most of his reprieve. Pioneer Press (Berardino) p. 12 Tom Powers: Fasten seatbelts, Twins ... it could be a bumpy ride. Pioneer Press (Bernardino) p. 13 Charley Walters: Paul Molitor gets ultimate vote of confidence. Pioneer Press (Walters) p. 14 Twins 2016 outlook: Miguel Sano flashed capabilities of MLB’s best power hitters. ESPN 1500 (Wetmore) p. 19 Mauer, Dozier homer as Twins tie Nationals 8-8. Fox Sports Noth (AP) p. 21 Bremer sees Twins taking another step forward in 2016 Rhett Bollinger | MLB.com | April 2, 2016 FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Count longtime Twins broadcaster Dick Bremer as one of those who believes Minnesota will build on its 2015 campaign that saw the club post a winning record for the first time since 2010. Bremer, in his 33rd year as the television voice of the Twins, knows the club is counting on several youngsters. But he told MLB.com in a video interview that he thinks they can be even better than they were a year ago. "I think everyone would be safe in assuming that the expectations are that they'll have a better year, because, in my mind, of how they put together the winning record from last year, with the influence of young guys who should only get better," Bremer said. "Guys like [Miguel] Sano, [Byron] Buxton, [Eddie] Rosario." Bremer, though, acknowledged how difficult the American League is this year, especially the AL Central. So it's hard to predict how it'll turn out. "I think the American League is going to be very, very balanced," Bremer said. "I don't think there is going to be anyone with less than 70 wins, I don't think there's going to be anyone with more than 90. Now, within that, the American League Central might be the most balanced division of the three in the American League, in my mind. I think you could make a case for any of the five teams -- including the Twins and the Royals -- everybody finishing first and getting to the playoffs." Twins' bats look ready for the regular season Bill Ladson | MLB.com | April 2, 2016 WASHINGTON -- The Nationals and Twins played their final exhibition game of 2016 at Nationals Park on Saturday afternoon, and the two teams found themselves in a slugfest. When it over, they played to an 8-8 tie. The Twins finished the spring with a 19-11-2 record, while the Nationals ended the spring with a 19-4-4 mark. The Twins got on the board quickly, as Brian Dozier led off the game with a home run off right-hander Joe Ross. But the Nationals ended up taking a 3-1 lead in the home half of the first against right-hander Ricky Nolasco. Ryan Zimmerman hit a two-run homer, while Daniel Murphy followed with a solo shot.. Ross, however, couldn't hold on to the lead. Minnesota scored four runs in the third inning. Joe Mauer highlighted the scoring, when he swung at a 3-2 pitch and hit a three-run homer over the left-center-field wall. "You have to give [the Twins] some credit. I'm telling you, they have a good team and they have a good-hitting, young team," Nationals manager Dusty Baker said. By the fourth inning, Nolasco had allowed two more runs. Michael Taylor hit a solo home run in the third, while Danny Espinosa tied the score at 5 with a solo shot an inning later. Ross ended up having his worst outing of the spring, allowing eight runs in five innings. Three of those runs came in the fifth inning. Eddie Rosario unloaded the bases with a double to right field to make it a three-run game. It didn't help that Ross was hampered by rain and injuries. The last time he pitched in a Major League game was against the Tigers on March 20. In that contest, a line drive off the bat of third baseman Nick Castellanos hit Ross on the right heel and he left the game soon thereafter. The injury wasn't considered serious. The rest of the time he pitched in Florida, Ross pitched in Minor League games. "Ross hasn't pitched in an 'A' game in three weeks," Baker said. "He pitched five innings in a 'B' game against Minor Leaguers. That's why we left him in [today's game] so long. We had to stretch him out. ... The good thing is, he didn't walk anybody and he battled. The main thing is, he got his work in." By the eighth inning, the Nationals managed to whittle the Twins' lead down to a run. With Trevor May on the mound in the seventh for Minnesota, Ben Revere scored on a single by Scott Sizemore. An inning later, Revere swung at a pitch from Fernando Abad and singled to left, scoring Jose Lobaton. Washington knotted the game at 8 in the ninth, when Chris Heisey hit a solo homer off right-hander Brandon Preston. Up next for the Nationals: They travel to Atlanta to play the first game of the regular season against the Braves on Monday at 4:10 p.m. ET. Max Scherzer will make his second consecutive Opening Day start for the Nats with a chance to make history. After throwing a no-no in his final start last season, Scherzer could join Johnny Vander Meer as the only pitchers to throw back-to-back no-hitters during the regular season. Up next for the Twins: They start the season in Baltimore and face the Orioles on Monday at 2:05 p.m. CT. Ervin Santana will get the start for Minnesota. Santana, an 11-year veteran, gets the nod in his first career Opening Day start. The Twins went with Santana after his dominant showing late last season, as he posted a 1.62 ERA over his final seven starts. Twins youth is promising, but winning doesn't always come right away 2 Phil Miller | Star Tribune | April 2, 2016 Byron Buxton and Miguel Sano, synonymous with “insanely bright Twins future” for the past four summers, are in the major leagues and in the Twins lineup as the 2016 season opens Monday. For Twins fans, the journey from signee to prospect to big-leaguer has been a little like watching the alarm clock all night on Christmas Eve, the wait excruciating, the fantasy tantalizing — and all the more so because Eddie Rosario is also in the lineup and Jose Berrios, Max Kepler and Nick Burdi are on the cusp. For Twins fans, or perhaps their parents, this should all seem familiar, and a little cautionary. It’s been a little more than three decades since another ballyhooed class of rookies and high draft picks arrived in Minnesota en masse, none of them older than 23 but all of them intent upon winning a World Series. And Frank Viola, Kent Hrbek, Gary Gaetti and Tom Brunansky accomplished their hallowed goal, delivering the Twin Cities’ first baseball championship — in 1987. In other words, as talented as that class of youngsters was, it took five years to win a commissioner’s trophy. Their record during that rookie season? The worst in Twins history: 60-102, their only triple-digit-loss season ever. Want a more recent example? The world champion Royals were built around a core group of position players, including Alex Gordon, Salvador Perez, Mike Moustakas and Eric Hosmer, a cluster of talent long projected to hold postseason parades. They did, in 2015, after losing in the World Series the year before. But all were in place, and losing more than they won, in 2011. Yes, the advent of young players is thrilling. But young players, in general, don’t win right away. The fragile promise Miguel Sano pulled on a T-shirt to wear under his jersey recently as he considered what’s in store for himself and the Twins in 2016. He exhibited more uncertainty about his wardrobe choice — is it warm enough for sleeveless? — than about his first full season in Minnesota. “We’re going to win games. Our lineup can score a lot. Many more runs,” Sano said, looking around the clubhouse and nodding at his fellow outfielders Rosario and Buxton. “I’m here, Rosie [is] here, Buck [is] here. … We’re young, but we’ll hit.” He makes it sound so easy, so preordained. Sano hit 18 home runs in half a season last year; what’s his expectation for 2016? “Many more,” he said simply. “If they pitch to me, many more.” Minnesotans have been captivated by the prophesied exploits of their young-but-inevitable superstars for years.
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